Write a story that starts with the reveal of a long-kept secret.

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“The secret ” by Karim Gamal

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“ I KILLED YOUR FATHER NANCY “.....1st of September 1939 ,the time when world war 2 started .Germany attacked Poland ,before it Japan had declared that they are in war with China .Over 100 milion people from more than 30 countries were in war as an ally country or axis country .• Robert Wayne was a brave army man ,he was in charge of an English military base no 64 He left his wife and his baby girl Nancy to defend his country against nazi attacks and the power of Adolf Hitler Robert showed a great bravery in the field of war ,...

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“The daughter of Birchtree Manor” by Mary McWilliams

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It was a crisp, cool autumn night in the small community of Birchtree Lane. The community held so many secrets. Most would never be revealed, but on this October night of 1930 one secret would be. One secret more deadly and horrific than imaginable. The immense Victorian house stood on the edge of Birchtree Lane, overlooking the foreboding sea. Inside the home lived the Birch family. The wealthiest family in the entire community. Their ancestors could be traced back to the 1800s.On this particular night we will learn of the mystery of the Bi...

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“After the Fog ” by Joshua Hopper

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“He came into my room again last night.” “Who did, dad?” “You know who damn well who. The man who’s been after me for months. I woke up and he had his hands over my mouth. He leaned down next to me and whispered, ‘I know what you did, and I’m going to kill you for it.’ He even threatened you, Sherri, and my grandkids too! Little Tommy and Ayla, he’s going to kill them! God, Robert, why don’t you ever believe me?” Robert looked into his father’s eyes. He felt the tears pounding from behind his eyes, but he blinked them away. Be st...

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“The Nightmare.” by Saranglogy R

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"You are the Princess of this Kingdom."My head was spinning and felt like the walls around me was slowly eating me. Everything seemed to be moving in a slow motion.All my childhood days, I was working as a maid in this big kingdom. I lived in the small room allocated for all other stuffs like me, eating the left overs by the majesties by sitting on the floor. The maids serving here always took care of me well, gave me a bed to sleep, feeding me. I felt like I finally had a family.Today was my twentieth birthday. Like my usual days, I got up ...

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“The Nightmare at the Halloween Party” by Ronda Everson

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I have been a university professor all my adult life. My kids have been along for the ride. I teach international students, and my kids love spending time with my students. However, there was a time that it turned into a nightmare. You see, one of my students from an unnamed poorer country decided to change his major from Enlgish to Theology. He had come as an English major, become a Christian, and then decided he wanted to serve God as a preacher. The secret that people didn't know was that this very good looking, c...

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“Mark Zuckerberg's Labyrinth” by Sophie Dibben

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In the derelict depths of Donegal, Callum was tucking into his mother’s coffee liquor. She had left abruptly. So he decided to invite his old friends from university for the weekend. The house was classically falling apart. A bit too empty and a bit too beige. He looked around at these boys, not men, boys. Everyone around this table fell into the same roles as they did 5 years ago. Hector, with a farmers, squalid shirt hanging off him and ripped shorts, still revelling in his own brutish banter. Will, smiling with his nicotine-stained teeth,...

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“Eleven years of Alice” by Imogen Bird

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Alice's mum had never been a much of a talker. Thirteen years and Alice had become accustomed to the silence. She had leaned to be a quiet child and throw away the questions. There are no answers so don't bother asking.It all changed that Saturday. Instead of swimming through the hours of stillness, reading and thinking the weekend away, a tornado of disruption ripped apart the household. Alice was aware her mum had been unwell for a while, a terrible retching sickness in her throat, lungs or perhaps all the way into her soul. They didn't ta...

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“Secrets” by Zane Safrit

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Secrets between lovers are like blinders on a horse. They help us focus. Our touch, a laugh, a sigh. They can carry us through a whole weekend. Standing in the middle of his office he remembered her laughing when he told her this on their first weekend together. They’d been drinking coffee in the well-appointed kitchen of the victorian Air BnB. She’d wanted to know about his family and his dog, ‘You had a dog, right? You like dogs?’ and his ‘first time.’ Like an overmatched boxer, he’d bobbed and weaved, sometimes clutching her just bef...

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“The Community of the Moon” by Des Feller

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“The moon is dead,” the old woman hissed. Her gnarled fingers gripped the girl's arm, and her words seemed to slither into Elena's ear like an unwanted snake. Elana's eyes widened in surprise for a moment before she softened her gaze, and pulled her arm from the grasp of the village loon. “Come on, Ena, it’s okay. See, look,” she takes the old woman’s hand in her own, pointing it to the celestial planet that hung in the sky, telling Elana that it was near sunrise, and was about half way through the month. “The moon is okay. It’s right there....

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“The Moon on the Lawn” by Deborah Mercer

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“I was abducted by aliens, of course.” My mother probably told me that for the first time when I was about four years old. It was certainly before I started at mainstream school, but when I was old enough to be able to read (I was precocious in that way, if not in others). It could have been before. It could have been after. But I don’t think there’s much leeway either way. She was quite particular about her own age at the time – she’d been 22, in her last year at university, living in a shared student house.&nb...

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“Vow” by Anna Forsyth

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All sorts of things can go wrong at a wedding – the cars don’t arrive; the groom doesn’t show up; an uncle drinks too much or the families start fighting. Sometimes all of these things happen at once – trust me, I have seen it all. My job is the easy part, I just have to turn up and say the right words, and I have most of them written down in front of me. So why couldn’t I do it today? Why did I pick today to draw my own line in the sand? Why blurt it all out now? That’s something I will have to figure out for myself, and I have nothing but ...

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“The Ringkeepers” by Alexis Klein

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“WHAT?! You’re telling me that NOW?! I’ve known you for how long? Nearly my whole life! Seriously? Arg!” Jamie said. Her best friend, Chloe, had just told her that for ten years she had been hiding a huge secret. Jamie looked at Chloe. “Ok, just to be clear, when you were 7, you broke your arm, and I somehow never even knew about it. When you were in the hospital, they used a practically untested solution to heal it and gave you a silver ring with a moonstone set into it.” “Yes,” Chloe said. “Yesterday Collin stopped me in the ha...

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“A grave revelation ” by Ben-oni Blay

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The words, which were uncovered but wrapped with every emotional vein in the human body, hit Lisa repeatedly like a sting. The injection she received caused her lungs to be disconnected from her body, the volume of her heartbeat to be amplified and her mind to stop functioning. For minutes, she felt like a subject ready for a scientific experiment. Except that it was nothing like a scientific experiment. The words: “…We are not your biological parents…” was the worst injection she had ever received in her life. And who could have thought tha...

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“Her” by Laura Watts

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I need to tell you something. Something secret. Something important. There is a girl. There is a ghost-girl. There is a ghost-girl who plays with fire. And someone always gets burnt. I nearly did. I am mad. At least, that’s what they tell me. At first, I knew I wasn’t, I was sure of it. My brain had never seemed so real, so mine. They tell me I’m crazy, that I dreamt it all up. That it doesn’t make sense. That I should just accept it was a lie. But I can’t. I have to hold on ...

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“John” by Ioana Savu

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“Why did you do that?”My chest hurts. I stare down at my shaking hands. I don’t recognize them as being my hands. It’s like, by some supernatural occurrence, someone or something cut off my wrinkled regular-sized hands and replaced them with a pair of odd, amorphous dwarf hands. They are particularly small and unshaped and they seem to be disintegrating before my very eyes.The blood pounds in my ears. What did he say? There’s a persistent buzz in my ears and I can’t tell where it’s coming from. One second, it seems to be coming from inside m...

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Write a story that starts with the reveal of a long-kept secret.

Submissions are closed

✍️ 129 stories

“The secret ” by Karim Gamal

“The daughter of Birchtree Manor” by Mary McWilliams

“After the Fog ” by Joshua Hopper

“The Nightmare.” by Saranglogy R

“The Nightmare at the Halloween Party” by Ronda Everson

“Mark Zuckerberg's Labyrinth” by Sophie Dibben

“Eleven years of Alice” by Imogen Bird

“Secrets” by Zane Safrit

“The Community of the Moon” by Des Feller

“The Moon on the Lawn” by Deborah Mercer

“Vow” by Anna Forsyth

“The Ringkeepers” by Alexis Klein

“A grave revelation ” by Ben-oni Blay

“Her” by Laura Watts

“John” by Ioana Savu

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